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In the wake of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the 20th anniversary of the mass murders of September 11, 2001, the corporate mainstream and alternative media have been replete with articles analyzing the consequences of 9/11 that resulted in the US invasion of Afghanistan and its alleged withdrawal after two decades of war.
These critiques have ranged from mild to harsh, and have covered issues from the loss of civil liberties due to The Patriot Act and government spying through all the wars "on terror" in so many countries with their disastrous consequences and killing fields.
Many of these articles have emphasized how, as a result of the Bush administration's response to 9/11,
the US has lost its footing and brought on the demise of the American empire and its standing in the world. Some writers celebrate this and others bemoan it.
Most seem to consider this inevitable.This flood of articles has been authored by writers from across the political spectrum from the left through the center to the right.
All were outraged in their own ways, as
such dramatic events typically manage to elicit much spilled ink informed by the writers' various ideological positions in a media world where the categories of left and right have become meaningless.
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